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HOLIDAY CHEER:Christmas Eve and Day services, events /A3Odd Fellows step up for Mustard Seed /A5Santa touches down at Queen Alexandra /A7

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Christmas queueCloverdale Traditional School student Savanna Brandenburg, 9, joins part of a human chain of more than 200 students as they deliver non-perishable food for the Mustard Seed Food Bank. The students were clad in sleepwear because of their annual pajama day at the school. In the past eight years, Thrifty Foods’ Food for Families campaign has donated over $1 million to local food banks, and this year’s tally isn’t yet known. Donations go to the local food bank nearest to the Thrifty Foods store chosen for donations. Sidney and Central Saanich donations feed the Sidney Lions Food Bank and Thrifty Foods Colwood feeds the Goldstream Food Bank. Food for Families runs until Jan. 5 at all Thrifty Foods locations.

Secret Santas use old libraryas North PoleTravis PatersonNews staff

For the past two months, more than 500 “elves” have secretly sorted, packed and prepped packages for 1,400 Greater Victo-ria families in the former Emily Carr Library branch at 3500 Blanshard St.

The building has been vacant since the Greater Victoria Public Library branch moved into Uptown in January 2014, and until today, the location of CFAX Santas Anonymous remained a secret for security reasons.

“We’ve been homeless for 37 years,” said CFAX Santas Anonymous president Dan Deringer. “Every year, we start the process again of finding a space that can accommo-date us. For 2015, that starts next week.”

The surprisingly nomadic charity organi-zation provides 5,200 bags of groceries to families across the region each holiday sea-son. For this year’s work, crews used each and every room in the Emily Carr library, one of two facilities donated to the organization. (The old North Douglas Distributors ware-house off Boleskine Road is where the final package of toys and groceries are delivered by local firefighters or picked up by receiving families.)

“We’ve run this program from vacant schools, warehouses, storefronts and build-ings,” Deringer said.

The retired DND worker has been with San-tas Anonymous for four years. Between 2011 and 2013, they were blessed with the use of the vacated Richmond elementary school. But with the current seismic upgrade sched-ule, Richmond is an active school once again, as George Jay elementary students have moved in.

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Christmas Even St. George’s Anglican Church, 3909 St. George’s Ln. Carols and children’s Christmas story 4:30 p.m.; communion 7:30 and 10:30 p.m.n Cadboro Bay United, 2625 Arbutus Rd. Family celebration & nativity 4 p.m.; candlelight service 7 p.m.; candlelight communion 10 p.m.n St. Michael’s Anglican, 4733 West Saanich Rd. Family service 4 p.m.; carol singing 10:30 p.m.; midnight eucharist 11 p.m.n New Life Community Fellowship, 3900 Carey Rd. Carols, candle lighting and refreshments 6:30 p.m.n Holy Cross Church, 4049 Gordon Head Rd. Family mass 6 p.m.; Christmas Eve mass 8 p.m.n Gateway Baptist, 898 Royal Oak Ave. Christmas Eve service 6:30 p.m.n St. Aiden’s United, 3703 St. Aiden’s St. Candlelight worship service, 7 p.m.

Christmas Dayn St. Luke’s Cedar Hill Anglican, 821 Cedar Hill Cross Rd. Family communion, 10 a.m.n St. Michael’s Anglican, 4733 West Saanich Rd. Christmas Eucharist 10 a.m.n Hope Lutheran Evangelical, 1924 Carrick St. Christmas service 10:30 a.m.n Holy Cross Church, 4049 Gordon Head Rd. Christmas Day mass 9:30 a.m.

Other eventsn Dec 24: Vox Humana presents Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales, 2:30 p.m., Alix Goolden Hall. vcm.bc.ca.

Holiday charity seeks permanent homeSaanich donated the old Emily Carr

building to Santas Anonymous free of charge, but it’s unlikely it will happen again in 2015.

“There will be discussion in the new year and, likely, an engineering assessment to upgrade (the 1972) building,” said Harley Machielse, Saanich’s newly appointed director of engineering. “Right now, there’s no plan for the building, so I can’t speculate too much, but I would think a future tenant is ideal.”

Selling the building has not been in the preliminary discussion, though Machielse wouldn’t rule it out.

“We have a lot to look at plumbing and seismic upgrading, if needed, so selling it is not on the radar, but we will need to know more about it before we can move forward,” he said.

It means Deringer and crew are back to the same place they are every January, putting their heads together in the executive directors’ home office.

“We knock on wood that something will come up. There’s a lot of hard work going into this, but we can’t streamline the process without a space,” Deringer said.

Ideally, the charity hopes to find an expansive space it can share with another tenant. Santas Anonymous would need to take over most of the building in November and December. From January to mid-October, they have an army of volunteers and a grant program to offer a partner willing to share the rental fees for a permanent location. Santas Anonymous programs such as Kids helping Kids run all year, but are not as demanding in terms of space.

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Continued from Page A1 Did you know?n Santas Anonymous relies heavily on community support. This year, Matthew Store Fixtures and Shelving provided shelving to maximize the empty rooms of the former Emily Carr library branch.

n The City of Victoria provided 80 tables and chairs, Thrifty Foods leant about 30 grocery carts to move food and toys around, Broadmead Pharmasave provided gift wrap, Coast Environment supplied portable, compostable washrooms and Western One donated a heater to warm up the cold North Douglas building.

n Eurosia Flowers will supply a bouquet of flowers to the mom of each family.

Jackie Smith of CFAX Santas Anonymous stands in front of the former GVPL Emily Carr library branch at Blanshard Street and Saanich Road. Saanich donated the space to the charity organization this season to assemble Christmas packages for 1,400 Greater Victoria families.


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In case you missed the outcome of the latest United Nations climate change conference in Lima, Peru, it was another costly, embarrassing failure.

There was the spectacle of Canada’s national media, reflexively denouncing Ottawa’s supposed inaction on greenhouse gases after U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled a surprise climate agreement with China in advance of Peru.

The U.S.-China announcement served as a preview of Peru, where developing countries would again refuse any substantive restrictions on their fuel use. China graciously agreed to continue ramping up its world-leading greenhouse gas emissions until 2030, while lame-duck Obama pretended he could commit the U.S. to further reductions.

Between them, the U.S. and China account for about half of global human-caused carbon emissions. Due mostly to the surge from China and India, Canada’s share has fallen from two per cent to 1.5,

which should help put all those “tar sands” protests into perspective.

Days later, Environment Canada released its latest national emission

statistics, an event ignored by most media.

“Between 2005 and 2012, total Canadian GHG emissions decreased by 5.1 per cent, while the economy grew by 10.6 per cent over the same period,” the report states.

B.C. Environment Minister Mary Polak joined the throngs who jetted to Lima. There she met officials from California and other U.S. states to re-announce

their modest efforts to put a price on carbon emissions. TV anchors and other wide-eyed innocents might have been left with the mistaken impression that the huge U.S. petroleum industry is cutting back, when in fact it has grown enormously thanks to shale oil and gas production.

And California continues to produce, by its own state government measure, the most carbon-intensive heavy crude in North America.

Overshadowing all of this is the drop in the world price of oil, mainly the result of Saudi Arabia flooding the market in an effort to push competitors out of business. In the latest sign of the U.S. public’s lack of interest in reducing emissions, sales of larger vehicles immediately spiked up as gasoline prices fell.

I’m still receiving criticism for a recent column in which I declared myself an “agnostic” on human-caused global warming. Agnostic means searcher, and my search has continued for real signs of climate change and its potential causes.

Our glaciers are receding, no question, but the current trend started around the 1850s, when a sport utility vehicle had one horsepower in leather harness and B.C. was about to be declared a British colony.

But amid the noise, there is serious evidence being put forward that our province is undergoing a climate shift with major consequences. And there are calls for action.

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‘Twas the night before Christmas‘Twas the night before Christmas at municipal hall

Neither staff nor directors were present at allThe statements were crafted by council with care

In hopes that their discontent soon would be airedThe mayor was nestled at home in his bed

while visions of change danced ‘round in his headThe veterans all fuming and warning of dangers ’bout

what would transpire when they re-entered chambers.When out in the public arose such a clatter

about severance packages. What was the matter? “Our taxes, our cash should be spent on the roads

And sidewalks and sewage aren’t yet up to code”When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,

But an Oak Bay-bound herd of unkempt urban deer“That 30-head cull hasn’t fixed things one bit”

Said a lead-footed driver, his horn in a fitWith the speed of a sloth, local leaders convened

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“To the CRD boardroom! To the halls of the leg! Now study and study and study to death!”

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof The prancing and pawing of small reindeer hooves

As I drew in my head, and was turning around Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound

“I had trouble finding this District at all” Said Santa, his iPhone map causing a glow

“Your address said Victoria, but Saanich it is Just what in the hell is the purpose of this?”

His questions continued, his cheeks turning red “There are 13 town halls?” he laughed, scratching his head

I ventured my best to explain why it was But the big man just stood there, his mind in a fuzz

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle And away they all flew like the down of a thistle

But I heard him exclaim, ‘ere he drove out of sight “2015’s a New Year, and you’ll need it alright!”

-borrowed in part from ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, Clement Clarke Moore (1799 - 1863)

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Very ‘Odd’ Christmas helps local families

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Members of the Odd Fellows Columbia Lodge #2 brave an early morning shift at Country Grocer in Royal Oak to fill a five-ton truck with $20,000 worth of food. The group fundraised and purchased the food at cost from Country Grocer to benefit the Mustard Seed Food Bank and delivered the truckloads on Dec. 18 and 19.

Daniel PalmerNews staff

They may be self-described odd fellows, but they do good work.

Last Thursday, about 40 members of a local Odd Fel-lows chapter descended upon the loading dock of Country Grocer on West Saanich Road to load $20,000 worth of food destined for The Mustard Seed Food Bank.

“A lot of times we find a char-ity we want to support, and then when we put together an event, we have 40 guys right there ready to help,” said Josh Miller, financial secretary of Odd Fellows Columbia Lodge No. 2.

Miller started the Ton of Love Project five years ago for The Mustard Seed, with the aim of donating a ton of non-perish-able food. The project grew the next year, but Miller and his col-leagues realized that piecemeal food donations weren’t always

what families needed during the holidays.

“We wanted to be able to bring healthy, nutritious food instead,” he said. “That really made an impact, and it really became about the love rather than the tonnage.”

For the past two years, the Odd Fellows have paired up with Country Grocer to pur-chase and deliver thousands of pounds of fresh produce, proteins and dairy products to families at The Mustard Seed during the Christmas rush.

“Last year, we actually got to hand out the food to families in line and we saw what it meant to them,” Miller said.

“These hampers were twice the size they were last year with five times the amount of produce. It’s food that makes you feel human.”

The Mustard Seed director of food services, Brent Palmer, connected with Country Grocer to discuss the facility’s needs over the holidays, and the Odd Fellows went about raising cash. In the end, they brought together nearly $20,000, mostly from local business donations and till donations from custom-ers at Country Grocer.

“That cash buys enough

food to fill almost half of what The Mustard Seed needs for their hampers for the holiday season,” Miller said. “Country Grocer are just such a stalwart team in the community and they supported us immensely. Without them, we could have never brought this off the ground the way that we did.”

Tammy Averill with Country Grocer said the Odd Fellows have donated manpower as well for a variety of community events.

“We had to take a food bank display down at the Bay Centre last year, and the guys came out right away to take it down,” she said. “It’s just great to work with local guys. They raised $7,000 more than last year, that’s huge. And their enthu-siasm is amazing, they’re just ready to go.”

Miller said part of the draw for donors he approached was ensuring them that 100 per cent of proceeds went to feeding families.

“When you’re looking for some way to give back and you’re not sure how to do it, you hook up with Odd Fellows and it’s an amazing thing,” he said.

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Evan Horvath scored a goal and an assist as the Saanich Braves broke their six-game los-ing streak last week, winning 3-1 over the Kerry Park Island-ers in Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League action (Dec. 17) at Pearkes Arena.

It was the Braves’ second win in the last 13 games. More importantly though, the win snapped a streak of five games where the Braves had allowed three or more third period goals that turned close games into losses.

That was far from the case last Wednesday, as the Braves took a 2-1 lead into the third period thanks to second period goals from Alex Schleuter, his fifth of the season on the power play, and Jordan Parmar, his fourth and second in as many games. Zack Smith had replied for the Islanders shorthanded, also in the second.

Horvath netted the insurance goal in the third, a power play marker 1:18 into the period. Schleuter earned an assist on the play to finish with a two-point evening for the Braves.

After that, the Saanich defence and goaltender Riley Mathieson, making his third start as a Brave, ensured there would be no col-lapse this time, keeping all 12 Kerry Park shots out of the net and preserving the 3-1 win.

Mathieson stopped 31 of 32 Islander shots, a big turnaround

to earn his first win as a Brave and sixth win of the season after he allowed six goals in each of his previous two starts.

For Horvath, a Whistler native, the goal was his second in as many games and the two point night vaulted him into sec-ond place in team scoring with 10 goals and 10 assists. It was his second two-point game in a row and the Braves will hope he can continue scoring at that pace as they head into the new year and the home stretch of the season.

The win bumped the Braves record to 9-19-0-5 and put them eight points up on Peninsula for

fourth place in the South Divi-sion. It also moved the Braves back to within seven points of the Islanders for third.

Saanich, who also hosted the Peninsula Panthers on Dec. 19 (results were past press time), are currently enjoying the Christmas break and renew their schedule on New Years Day with a return engagement with the Panthers, this time at Panorama Arena in a 6 pm start.

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Capital Region bird-watchers are keeping a close eye out for the one that got away last Christmas.

Dec. 20 marked the 115th annual Christmas Bird Count.

“It’s the longest last-ing citizen science project ever,” said Ann Nightingale, co-ordi-nator of the Victoria Christmas Bird Count.

Last year, 145 differ-ent kinds of birds were spotted. Victoria holds the Canadian record at 154 different kinds of birds in one day in 2004.

However, even with 250 volunteers in the

field watching for birds, one rare bird stayed out of sight of the coun-ters last year.

Ken Orich was vis-ing from Lethbridge last Christmas when he snapped a photo of a redwing – a rare bird for Victoria. Bird count co-ordinators did not find out about the photo until March, when it was too late to add the bird to the 2013 count.

“This is an Asian vagrant that had never been recorded in Victo-ria before,” said Night-ingale.

This year’s focus was on getting more peo-ple reporting the birds they saw in their yards.

“A lot of these rare

birds will come to feeders,” said Night-ingale. “Unless we get these feeder reports, we might never know about [them].”

Victoria has the high-est number of partici-pants out in the field every year, but on aver-age there are only 35 people recording birds at their home feeders.

“We can’t control the birds. They’re here or they’re not. We can’t control the weather. But what we can influ-ence is participation,” said Nightingale. “We’re trying to get 250 feeder watch reports.”

Although finding rare birds is a treat for bird-watchers, Nightingale said they are still inter-

ested in counting the common ones as well.

“If all you know are robins and crows, you can still send me how many robins and crows you had in your yard.”

Nightingale said the main purpose of the count is to “get a sense of the wintering popu-lations of birds and the changes that are hap-pening over time.”

Having been involved in the annual count since 2000, Nightin-gale has seen many changes in the kinds of birds that are seen in the area.

“There [are] some birds that were com-mon back in 2000 that are no longer seen on every Christmas Bird Count, like ring-necked pheasants.

“There are some birds that were con-sidered rare in 2000 that we now see most winters, like turkey vultures and white-throated sparrows.”

The Christmas Bird Count is done in over 2,000 locations across North America.

One community in particular is in direct competition with Greater Victoria.

“In Canada, the top honours each year tend to go to either Victoria or Ladner, in terms of number of spe-cies seen,” said Night-ingale. “We watch each other’s numbers pretty carefully. It’s bragging rights.”

To find out more about the bird count, contact Ann Nightin-gale at 250-514-6450 or [email protected].

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$20 & Up Garbage & Garden waste removal. Senior Disc. Free estimates. 250-812-2279.

CLEAN-UP SPECIAL. You load bins, size 12 yard $100 plus dump fee or we do it all. Call 250-361-6164.

HAUL A WAY- Clean and green, Junk removal. Free quotes. Call (778)350-5050.

JUNK BOX- Junk Removal Company. Local guys. Low rates. Call (250)658-3944.


HAULING AND SALVAGE

JUNK REMOVAL 7 days / wk.Fast Service, Best Prices!! Free quotes. (250)857-JUNK.

PARRY’S HAULING We haul it all - FREE estimates. Call Wes 250-812-7774.

PETE’S HAUL A DAY- Junk removal. Airforce guy. Call 250-888-1221.

SAVE-A-LOT HAULING Furniture, appliance, garden waste, we take it all! Always lowest rate, senior discount. Brad 250-217-9578.

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ALLSTAR MOVING Delivery Service. From $59. Free local travel. Call (250)818-2699.

PAINTING

ALFRED, ALFRED Quality Painting. Wholesale, Dis-counts! 50 years experience. 250-382-3694.

A PROFESSIONAL Woman painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wall coverings. Over 25yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220.

LADY PAINTERServing the Peninsula for over 20 yrs. Interior/exterior. Call Bernice, 250-655-1127.

OLD TIMER. Quality old fash-ioned service. Great rates. Ex-cellent references. Call Al at 250-474-6924, 250-888-7187.

PLASTERING

PATCHES,Drywall, skimming, match the textures, coves, fi re-places. Bob, 250-516-5178.

PRESSURE WASHING

DRIVEWAYS, WALKWAYS, Decks, etc. Reasonable rates. 250-744-8588, Norm.


STUCCO/SIDING

PATCHES, ADDITIONS, re-stucco, renos, chimney, water-proofi ng. Bob, 250-516-5178.

TREE SERVICES

BUDDY’S TREE SERVICES-Trimming, pruning, chipping,removals, hedges. Insured.Call Keith, (250)474-3697.

WINDOW CLEANING

BOB’S WINDOW Cleaning.Roof demoss, Gutters. Licensed and affordable. 250-884-7066.

DAVE’S WINDOW Cleaning.Windows, Gutters, Sweeping,Roofs, Roof Demossing, Pres-sure Washing. 250-361-6190.

GRAND XTERIOR Cleaning-We clean your neighbourshouse. Gutters, window,roofs, de-moss. 250-380-7778.

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